<TITLE>13. Par 78-82</TITLE>L-78 Now, I might say this, that all of you's heard of the meetings, how it goes, though, have you? All peoples been in the meetings? See, when our Lord Jesus was here on earth, He did not claim to be a Healer. He was the Seed of Abraham, certainly, and He had the promise with Him. He said He did nothing till the Father showed Him. Is that right? And He said, "I can do nothing till the Father shows me what to do." And He saw it by... Not "till the Father tells Me"; "till the Father shows Me." St. John 5:19, "What I see the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."
Now, when He wa--He come, we find out in the beginning of His ministry, that after He was taken the--the seed of David, spiritually speaking, the--when the Holy Spirit come upon Him at the baptism of John, and He become the Anointed Messiah... Now, remember, He was the Son of God when He was borned. He was God's virgin-born Son. But when He become Messiah, that's when the Holy Spirit come on Him, 'cause the "Messiah" means the "anointed one." See? And He was the Anointed One when the Holy Spirit came on Him. You heard me preach on the Lamb and Dove. Then we find out when He... After His forty days of temptation, He came out.

L-80 And how did His ministry start, and how did it finish? We find that in His ministry that there was a man by the name of Andrew that went and found his brother, Simon, a fisherman, and brought him to Jesus. And Jesus told him, said, "Your name is Simon. Your father's name is Jonas. From henceforth you'll be called Peter, which means 'little stone.'" You remember that? And this fellow was so astonished at what Jesus told him. Now, was the Messiah supposed to do that? How many knows that say, "Amen." He was to be the God-prophet. Yes, sir. Moses said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet likened unto me. It shall come to pass that who will not hear this Prophet shall be cut off from amongst the people."

L-81 Now, then when we find out later on, He was... He came to His Own. Who were those? The Jews, by nature. And so His Own received Him not, so He had then... Now, it has to go to the Gentiles, see, 'cause His Own received Him not. "But as many as did receive Him, to them gave He the power to become sons of God." So now He's turned to the Gentiles, and has been for two thousand years. But now, notice the things that He did.

L-82 Then Philip, after he seen this done, he went and found Nathanael and told Nathanael who he had found, and what He had done, and that astonished him. He couldn't hardly believe it, but when he got in the Presence of the Lord Jesus, when he found where He was, come up into His Presence, Jesus said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
Now, if you'd have been standing there, do you think you'd have been spiritual enough to have understood Who that was? You think you would've done it? Now watch. See, that man, just a stranger, there he might've been a fisherman. He was a carpenter, is what He was. This carpenter Man standing there, a middle-aged Man, and up come this man. He looked at him, like one of these men here, and said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there's no guile." Well, how'd He know he was an Israelite? Not the way he dressed, 'cause they all dressed alike. "In whom there's no guile." How did He know that he was a--a guileless man?
So it astonished this man; being a real believer, he said, "Rabbi (or brother, preacher, teacher), when did You ever see me?" See, he was questioning Him.
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
He said, "You're the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."
Jesus said, "Because I've told you this, now you believe Me; now you'll see greater things than this."


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